January 27, 2022

Steve Casper [Henry E. Riggs Professor of Management, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont]: Perspectives on Cultural Entrepreneurship

Abstract Commenting on the keynotes of Michael Lounsbury and Alice Lam. About the Speaker Steve Casper is Henry E. Riggs Professor of Management at Keck Graduate […]
January 27, 2022

Rebecca Ohene-Asah [Filmmaker / University of Ghana]: Audio-Visual Archiving Dynamics in Ghana

Abstract Ghana’s historical audio-visual archives are largely inaccessible. As such, there is a disconnect between current cultural productions and what already exist. On the national level, […]
January 27, 2022

Ji-hoon Kim [Chung Ang University, Seoul]: The Uses of Found Footage and The ‘Archival Turn’ of Recent Korean Documentary

Abstract This paper examines the ways in which several Korean documentary films in the 2010s use archival footage of the distant or recent histories of Korea. […]
January 27, 2022

Hyginus Ekwuazi [University of Ibadan]: Nollywood—The Making of a Digital Dark Age

Abstract The consciousness that runs through this paper is that a film industry is developed in direct proportion to the extent that it is able to […]
January 27, 2022

Dal Yong Jin [Simon Fraser University]: Transnational Korean Popular Culture in the Korean Wave Tradition: From K-film’s and K-pop’s Perspectives

Abstract In the early 21st century, Korean popular culture, including Korean cinema and K-pop, have continued to expand their global reach. Even during the COVID-19 era, […]
January 27, 2022

Suk-Young Kim [University of California]: Millennial North Korea: New Media Technology and Living Creatively under Surveillance

Abstract North Korea might be known as the world’s most secluded society, but it has witnessed the rapid rise of media technologies in the new millennium. […]
January 27, 2022

Alessandro Jedlowski [Sciences Po Bordeaux]: Disrupting Pan-Africanism: New Technologies and the Fragmentation of Nigerian Film Circulation Across Africa and the Diaspora

Abstract The emergence and tremendous success of Nollywood throughout the 1990s made scholars suggest that a new form of pan-Africanism had emerged, based on the transnational […]